Niche construction and the behavioral context of plant and animal domestication

By Bruce D. Smith. 2007

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Subfields: Anthropology, Ecology, Paleontology

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Ecological Inheritance and Cultural Inheritance: What Are They and How Do They Differ? (2011, background): “However, it is precisely because of our uniquely potent cultural knowledge that we humans can be characterized as ‘‘the ultimate niche constructors’’ (Smith 2007).”
The Broad Spectrum Revolution at 40: Resource diversity, intensification, and an alternative to optimal foraging explanations (2012, background): “…of large bodies of environmental information that makes humans such proficient niche constructors, an ability that confers a tremendous evolutionary advantage to our species (Boyd and Richerson, 1985; Laland and O’Brien, 2010; Richerson and Boyd, 2005; Smith, 2007a, 2007b, 2009a, 2011b, 2012).”
Cultural Niche Construction: An Introduction (2011, background): “Humans can and do modify their environments mainly through cultural processes, and it is this reliance on culture that lends human niche construction a special potency (Smith 2007; Kendal et al. 2011; O’Brien and Laland 2012).”
Cultivation and domestication had multiple origins: arguments against the core area hypothesis for the origins of agriculture in the Near East (2011, background): “Hunter-gatherers are compulsive niche constructors, modifying environments for their own benefit and passing both that modified environment and the cultural practices of management onto subsequent generations (e.g. Rowley-Conwy and Layton 2011; Smith 2007, 2011; Wollstonecroft 2011).”
Agricultural Origins: Centers and Noncenters; A Near Eastern Reappraisal (2010, background): “” Smith (2007a) even compares niche construction activities of various animals (eg, tree-cutting and dam building by beavers) with man's controlled burning and cultivation activities ( Smith, 2007a ).”
Ecology in an anthropogenic biosphere (2015, background): “To understand the evolution of ecosystem engineering by humans, ‘‘the ultimate ecosystem engineers,’’ the effects of directly beneficial ecological inheritance are paramount (Laland et al. 2000, Odling-Smee et al. 2003a, Smith 2007b).”
How culture shaped the human genome: bringing genetics and the human sciences together (2010, background): “Indeed, human niche construction is informed by a uniquely potent and cumulative cultural knowledge bas”
A Cultural Niche Construction Theory of Initial Domestication (2011, background): “…and social learning (Laland and Brown 2002) by small-scale human societies as they comprehensively ‘‘auditioned’’ component species of these unusually rich biotic communities to assess their potential both for sustained economic utilization and as targets of niche construction (Smith 2007).”
The Origins of Agriculture in the Near East (2011, background): “The exciting recent discoveries on Cyprus provide a special perspective on this long period of low-level food production (sensu Smith 2001) in the mainland Fertile Crescent.”
More on how and why: cause and effect in biology revisited (2013, background): “…advocacy of reciprocal causation, within anthropology, archaeology, and other human sciences (Boyd and Richerson 1985; Richerson and Boyd 2005; Smith 2007a, b; Fuentes 2009; Bickerton 2009; O’Brien and Laland 2012; see special editions of journals edited by Pyne and Riel-Salvatore 2010, and…”